How did Europe’s wealthiest state come to finance the greatest tyrant of the 21st Century?

We must see beyond the myths surrounding the Ukraine crisis

Two newly translated books evoke chapters of the divided and discarded history of Germany’s capital

When Hitler came to power, the bubble burst

John McCloy freed Hitler’s favourite industrialists. Their firms still dominate the country’s economy

Norman Lebrecht on how Marion von Weber was both interesting and important to Mahler’s emergence

Mahler’s political journey from Baader-Meinhof terrorist to Holocaust denier illustrates Germany’s post-Hitler psychodrama

How the Anglophile Kaiser Wilhelm went to war with Britain

Despite the fact East Germany has disappeared, it continues to live on in this outstanding trilogy

Nigel Jones recalls the time he spent in the home of the legendary German writer Ernst Jünger